Eyewitness: Cops Shot Kimani Gray While He Was On the Ground, Then Threatened to Shoot Me | Dispatches from the Underclass

22.3.13

Eyewitness: Cops Shot Kimani Gray While He Was On the Ground, Then Threatened to Shoot Me | Dispatches from the Underclass:
Independent journalist Ryan Devereaux interviewed 39-year-old Tishana King, the only known eyewitness to the police killing of 16-year-old Kimani Gray in East Flatbush last weekend, revealing new and disturbing details about Gray’s last moments of life.
King, who witnessed the entire encounter from her third story bedroom window, told the New York Daily News last week that she was “certain [Gray] didn’t have anything in his hands” when he was shot, casting doubt on police claims that Gray pointed a revolver at the officers, forcing them to open fire. She also said Gray was “backing up” when “The cop took out his gun and started firing.”
In her extended interview with Devereaux (whose coverage of Gray’s shooting and protests for the Village Voice is a must read), King elaborates on what she witnessed that night.
She says that one of the officers who shot Gray continued to shoot while the teen was on the ground. According to the state’s autopsy report, Gray was shot seven times (three times in the back), so this is completely plausible.